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PAPER. A. No, 283,701. Patented Aug. 21, 1883.

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PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters :Patent No. 283,701, dated August21, 1883.

Application filed April 7, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, J AMES B. CRANE, of Dalton, in the county ofBerkshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Paper, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to afford a simple and inexpensive meansof producing a cloth-finish to paper.

The improvement consists in the novel method of producing a4cloth-finish on paper, consisting in applying to or laying upon oppositesurfaces of the paper pieces of cloth, insubsequently subjecting thecloth and paper to pressure between smooth surfaces, and in finallyremoving the cloth from the paper. y

- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagram illustrating amanner in which paper Amay have a cloth-nish imparted to it, and Fig. 2is a face view of a piece of the iinished paper.

A designates apiece of paper, and B designates pieces of cloth, -whichare laid against opposite sides thereof. C designates rollers 5 havingsmooth surfaces, between `which the pieces of paper and cloth arepassed. Suitable devices will be applied to these rollers7 or to one ofthem, for the purpose of causing them to exert a greatpressure upon thepieces of paper and cloth as the latter passes between them. The meshesand other projections and hollows of the cloth will thus be impressedinto the surfaces of the paper. 'After being subjected te pressure the'cloth is. removed, leaving its impression on the paper.

The paper or the cloth may, if desirable, be moistened to facilitate theimpress of the surface of the cloth into the paper; but this will not benecessary.

4o The impress of the surface of the cloth into the paper may be done,in the manner described, either before calendering or after calenderingthe paper, or even during the process of calendering.

A. name or desi gnating-marl; or ornament may be produced in the paperby delineating it upon the cloth by stitching, or in any other mannerwhich will giveit the necessary proj ection, and then subjecting thepaper to pressure While in contact with the cloth, as expla-ined.

' The use of cloth and plain surface rollers, instead of rollers havingtheir surfaces etched or engraved in imitation of cloth, isadvantageous, vbecause it obviates the expense of etching or engravingthe rollers, and enables surfaces resembling different textures of clothto be very readily produced, to say nothing of the facility withWhichthe lines of the cloth may be made to extend in differentdirections across the paper.

I do not Wish to conne myself to producing the pressure `by rollers, asl may do it between Smooth surfaces in any suitable manner. Forinstance, by `pilin g a number of pieces of paper and cloth together andsubjecting them to a hydraulic press.

The pressure may also be produced in a plating-machine.

What l claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The process of producing' a clothffnish on paper, consisting in applyingto or laying upon opposite surfaces of the paper pieces of cloth, insubsequently subjecting the cloth and paper to pressure between smoothsurfaces, and in finally removing the cloth from the paper,substantially as specified.

JAlvIES B. CRANE. 7Witnesses:

T. J. KEANE, CHANDLER HALL.

